Ugly building. No emphasis placed on comfort, acoustics or aesthetics of work environment
Outdated technologies (programming languages, tools)
Incompetent front-line management. Very self-absorbed and focused on protecting their own image, too technical-minded, not focused on employee retention, too many employees to supervise does not allow them to focus on individual employees
Culture of FEAR and threats to motivate people
Rewards only go to people involved in growth opportunities
As a new engineer, you have virtually NO control over which project you are placed on. Based on luck you may get layed off due to a project ending or being cancelled. You MUST bust your butt on every task you are assigned
Culture of working lots of overtime in Software Engineering. Almost like a competition. Makes you feel guilty for taking time off to maintain a decent work/life balance. Supervisors don't care
Processes are paid lip service, but projects really work very independently and don't use common tools or processes all that much
Extreme fear of risk-taking and super-strong focus on EVM kills most of the creativity and entrepreneurial thinking that anyone comes into the building with
Lots of stove-piping and fighting between functions
Estimates are arbitrarily hacked down to fit customer's "bogey" budget
Culture of working overtime means limited availability of SMEs
